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Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris

Foglio 115 v - K3 35 v

Manica1.

Figura di:

fil di paglia che fa la manica busa.

Fa una carta della tua mistura e in quella taglia molti cerchi e quelli taglia nel semidiamit[r]o, cioè tutto esso semidiamitro, e poi congiugni insieme il semidiamitro dell'uno col semidiamitro dell'altro, e così lascia seccare. Fatto che hai questo, distendila in linia di verso il centro, ma prima la innumidisci e poi la distendi, e lasciala seccare. Di poi la vesti con2 iscorze di vari colori e starà così: [figura], cioè come un misenterio3 d'animale. Di poi ne ferma un altro a riscontro di simile natura. Di poi vesti lo intervallo di varie scorze a uso di panniculi d'uova o di cipolle o sottili bodella4 di lucertini o d'altri animali minuti, le quali sien confiate5 e poi vestite con varie scorze, e poi segate e riempiute le budella di calcidonio.

Folio 115v (K3 35v).

Sleeve.

Figure of:

A straw thread that makes the sleeve hollow. Make a sheet of your mixture and in it cut many circles, and cut those along the semi-diameter, that is the whole semi-diameter, and then join together the semi-diameter of one with the semi-diameter of the other, and so let it dry. Once you have done this, spread it out in a line toward the center, but first moisten it and then spread it, and let it dry. Then clothe it with rinds of various colors and it will be thus: [figure], that is, like a mesentery of an animal. Then fix another opposite it of similar nature. Then clothe the interval with various rinds after the manner of egg-membranes or onion-skins or thin guts of lizards or of other small animals, which are inflated and then clothed with various rinds, and then sawn and the guts filled with chalcedony.

Imitation chalcedony: forming a hollow tubular 'sleeve'

A straw-thread sleeve of joined circles, dressed in colored rinds like a mesentery and filled with chalcedony

Ornament & Heraldry

The page describes shaping a hollow tube, called a 'sleeve,' as part of the imitation-chalcedony work. From a sheet of the mixture one cuts many circles, slits each along its semi-diameter, joins the semi-diameters end to end and lets them dry, then moistens and stretches the piece toward the center. Dressed in rinds of various colors it comes to look like an animal's mesentery; a matching piece is fixed opposite, and the interval between is clothed with membranes like egg-skins, onion-skins, or thin animal guts, which are inflated, dressed in colored rinds, then sawn open and the guts filled with chalcedony. A small tree is sketched in the right margin.

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Building a hollow 'sleeve' from joined circles

From a sheet of the mixture, many circles are cut and each is slit along its semi-diameter; the semi-diameter of one is joined to that of the next and left to dry. The piece is then moistened, stretched out toward the center, and dried again to make a hollow tube, or 'sleeve,' formed with a straw thread.

Dressing the tube like a mesentery, filled with chalcedony

Clothed in rinds of various colors the tube resembles an animal's mesentery, and a matching one is set opposite it. The interval between is dressed with membranes like egg-skins, onion-skins, or thin animal guts, which are inflated, clothed in colored rinds, then sawn open and filled with chalcedony.

Reader's Edition — described with AI from the e-Leo transcription.